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RESEYMOUR. CASH REGISTER.

(No Model.)

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. P. H. SEYMOUR.

CASH REGISTER. No. 507,936.

Patented 051;. 31, 1898.

IVIYWESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK H. SEYMOUR, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM T. MOGRAW, OF SAME PLACE.

CASH-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 507,936, dated October 31, 1893.

Application filed June 6,1892- Serial No. 435,609. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK H. SEYMOUR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, county of Wayne, State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gash-Registers; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it to pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to cash registers in which the amount of a customers purchase l 5 in a store, is temporarily indicated at a place where the indicating figures can be seen by the customer, and at the same time the amount of the purchase is recorded in a way to be permanently preserved on a strip of paper.

Theobject of my invention, is to produce a register that shall be simple in construction, simple in operation and inexpensive to manufacture.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows a sectional elevation of the cash register from front to rear. Fig. 2, is a perspective with the top thrown back to show the printing mechanism by which the record is produced. Fig. 3, shows a detail of a preferred form of ratchet 0 and pawl employed in moving the paper roll. Fig. 4:, is a plan of the ratchet and pawl shown on Fig. 2. Fig. 5, is a side elevation of the same.

A, represents the case, divided into two 5 compartments, an upper one within which is contained the tablets and printingmechanism, and a lower one in which is contained the money drawer.

D, indicates the money drawer in the re- 4.0 ceptacle A.

E, indicates a spring secured to the rear wall of the compartment A, which presses against the rear of the money drawer D, and operates to throw the money drawer out when the locking bolt L, is raised from in front of the catch K.

In the upper compartment a, are a number of bars B, bent at right angles. The upper end I), of each bar 13,, is held in guides G, G, in a vertical position; of these guides G, is transparent throughout a part of its surface, and

opaque or partially opaque throughout another part of its surface. I employ for this guide G, a piece of glass for which the part 9, is clear and the part g is colored or ground; the entire glass G, forms a part of the case A. The guide G, is secured to the ends of the case and extends across from one end to the other. Between the guides G, G, I place several of the tablet bars B, and on the face of each at F, I print or engrave an indicating figure, and this indicating figure can be seen through the clear part g, of the glass. guide G, Whenever the tablet bar has been pushed down as hereinafter described, but until the tablet bar has been pushed downward the figured part of the bar is concealed behind the opaque part 9, of the guide G.

A spring S,engages with the top of each tablet bar and liftsit upward, whenever the tablet bar is not held downward by either the finger of the operator or a spring catch it. To each tablet bar is secured a spring catch 70, made preferably in the form of an umbrella catch, and adapted to engage with the lower 5 edge of the guide G, whenever the tablet bar has been pushed downward far enough to allow, the spring catch it, to spring-out from the recess is; to the horizontal part b, of the tablet bar B, is fixed a verticalstem 5 extend- 8o ing through the case and terminating in a finger piece b The finger piece 19 forms the key by which the tablet bar is operated both to bring the figured part F, to the place of inspection,and to print the record as hereinafter described. On the under side of the arm b, of each of the tablet bars, is a printing type with raised characters adapted to make an impression on the paper P. Each one of the type characters t, is arranged on its own tablet bar in such a position that no two of them come in the same straight line across the register. Their relative position is indicated in Fig. 2, and the result of the arrangement is to cause the impressions to be made in columns in which amountsof the same numerical value are always in the same column so that the totalizing of all the amounts shown on the paper is arrived at by counting the number of impressions in each column, mul- 10o tiplying the number of impressions in the column by the numerical value of the character which makes a print in that column and adding together the sums produced by such multiplication. Under the horizontal part of the tablet bars, and across the case is a table T, over which moves a strip of paper P, from a roll 19, to a second roll 19. To the end of the second roll 19', is attached a ratchet wheel operated by apawl 'r. The pawl q", is itself operated by a readj usting key R, which terminates a readj usting lever B, and the readjusting lever R, turns a rock shaft Q, and brings a rock arm, q, into engagement with the catch 70. The rock arm q, extends across the case behind the tablet bars, and isadapted to engage with any one or all of the catches in, that may be sprung outward, and thereby release the catch from contact with the under side of the guide G, and permit the spring S, to lift any or all of said tablet bars upward. \Vhen the read justing lever B, is pushed downward, it engages with the lever r upon which the pawl r, is hung and pushes the lever 4 and the pawl 1', downward, turns the ratchet wheel 7', and the paper roller 19, and advances the paper across the table '1, under the printing ends I), of the tablet bars. The lever r is returned by spring 7' which engages its under side. The same downward movement of the readjusting lever pushes downward the end of the lever Z, and raises the locking bolt L, out of engagement with the catch K, on the drawer D, and permits the drawer to open under the force of the spring E, as heretofore described. After a down stroke has been made by the lever R, this lever is lifted by the force of the spring M, which lifts the free end of the lever Z, and at the same time pushes upward the free end of the lever B. The same downward movement of the readj usting lever B, sounds an alarm bell II, by means of a bell pull 6.

Fig. 3, shows a preferred form of ratchet and pawl, to be employed in moving the paper rolls. The ratchet wheel 1", is made in the usual form but the pawl r consists of a spring loop made fast to the readj usting lever B. The spring pawl 1' remains in connection with the readjusting lever, and is thrown upward out of contact with the ratchet wheel when the upper part of the case is turned backward as shown in Fig. 2. \Vhen the upper part of the case is thrown forward, the

loop of the pawl, is in position to catch over the ratchet and rotate the ratchet wheel when the readj usting lever R, is pushed downward.

It will be noticed that the upper part of the register case with all the operative machin ry contained in it is thrown backward at will by the operator, who can readily examine the record that has been made on the slip of paper and remove the same if he desires.

What I claim is- 1. In a cash register, the combination of a vertically movable key, a spring actuator adapted to lift said key, a spring catch adapted to hold said key in a depressed position, a readjusting lever adapted to release said catch, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In a cash register, the combination of two or more tablet bars in a series, a paper roll adapted to carry a web of paper trans verse the series, a printing type on each tablet bar of said series the said printing type being so located on the tablet bars as to make their imprint in lines proper to each individual type, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. In a cash register, the combination of two or more tablet rods, having tablets adapted to be brought into view by the downward motion of said rod, an actuatinglifting spring for each tablet rod, paper rolls adapted to move a web of paper under said tablet rods, printing type on the several tablet rods, arranged to make their imprint each in its own proper column on said web of paper substantially as and for the purpose described.

at. In a cash register, in combination with type carrying tablet rods, actuating springs, holding catches, a readjusting lever and paper carrying rolls, and a looped spring pawl carried by said readjusting lever, and a ratchet wheel carried by one of said paper rolls, adapted to engage with and be operated by the loop of said pawl substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK H. SEYMOUR Witnesses:

O. F. BURTON, EFFIE I. CROFT. 

